Author: Anita Westervelt
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Anita’s Blog — Cause and Effect
Jann Miller Indian Mallow has a beautiful peach-colored bloom that opens in the afternoon — but what goes on before that . . . ?
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Look quick — Tiny birds that come for the winter
December 19, 2020, McAllen Monitor, Look quick — Tiny birds that come for the winter, Story and photos by Anita Westervelt
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Annoying but valuable garden mates
December 5, McAllen Monitor, Annoying but valuable garden mates, story and photos by Anita Westervelt
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“Nature’s Best Hope,” according to University of Delaware professor
Doug Tallamy, PhD, professor at the University of Delaware’s Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, and author of a recent book, “Nature’s Best Hope — Restoring Nature’s Relationships,” gave an outstanding presentation at the 2020 Virtual TMN meeting with workable ideas whereby he proposes that we can make our “combined yards” — across the nation — “into…
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Wild Poinsettia
Painted leaf, fire on the mountain, Mexican fire plant, Texas poinsettia, wild poinsettia. By whatever name you know it, Euphorbiaceae cyathophóra is a North and South American native and cousin to the commercially important December poinsettias.
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Lichen – Complicated, but beautiful
Lichens are a complex life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an alga.